Quebecor’s Freedom Mobile is offering up a “winback” plan to some customers, in an attempt to bring them back to the company.
The “winback” plan being offered is a $29 per month plan with 50GB of 5G data (after Digital Discount), plus Canada-US talk, text and data. That is $5 off its current $34/50GB Canada-US plan.
“Come back to Freedom and get a new value-packed plan, and a plan price that’ll never go up,” says the Freedom Mobile email that details this “exclusive” offer, according to RFD.
Freedom Mobile says they will also waive the $45 connection fee for those considering this “winback” plan.
If you recently left Freedom Mobile, you might want to check your email inbox to see if this offer is available.
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I got the offer, and I want so badly for it to work.. I tried them last year twice with US/CAN plans and it was frustrating how reliable it would be when roaming, but how poorly it worked when on their network. I would be at home with 3 bars and try a speed test and it would fail to start and data wouldn’t work. Meanwhile, on my Telus line I’m getting 1 bar of 5G service and it’s downloading at 266 Mbit…
I agree. The US roaming is nice but it’s hard to argue that a $34 50 gigabyte plan from public mobile is not infinitely better for use in Canada (and most users are going to be using their phone in Canada 95% of the time, not the US).
My only issue there is there are members in my family who “require” visual voicemail. I do believe VVM is a very useful tool and VM without it is abysmal, I just never get VMs. I don’t believe all of the discount carriers provide VVM.
You can use Live Voicemail free.
You can turn Live Voicemail on or off
Open the Settings app, then tap Phone.
Tap Live Voicemail.
Turn Live Voicemail on or off.
In iOS 17 and later, Live Voicemail is on by default.
When Live Voicemail is on, your phone picks up incoming calls to capture the caller’s voicemail for you to see in real-time. The caller can’t hear you and you can’t hear them unless you answer the call.
I do not mean that. I have had that feature on since the day iOS 17 was available. If my phone rings and I’m not around, or if I’m out of range of coverage, I want to see the Voice Mail. When my wife is working her phone is off but she still wants to see any missed voicemails.
Why does she turn it off rather than put it on do not disturb?
I don’t know, but does that matter? If you ask me, when I don’t answer my phone (because I choose not to, because I’m out of cell range, because my phone is off, etc.), someone should have the option to leave me a voicemail and I shouldn’t have to go through an archaic menu of listening to an automated voice and pressing numbers in order to hear them. What I am saying is that the new iOS 17 feature is great but I do not accept the premise that it is a replacement for VVM. The live voicemail feature is a handy call screening tool, but does not help you when your phone was not able to answer the call on its own.
I ask because in most cases, people who “turn their phone off” are usually less savvy users who only do that because they think that’s the proper way to silence calls (even movie theatres etc still tell you to do this sometimes and continue to propagate that myth), rather than using a properly configured Do Not Disturb feature. Because for most people, while getting voicemails is also important, the majority of callers these days do not bother to leave voicemails so having a record of the missed calls is important too, that you can return them if need be. Same thing with SMS texts. Most people I know if they *want* to leave a voicemail, they will instead hang up and text me. Which, if on Android, will also be lost to the void if the phone is off (and no read receipt to confirm this). So usually turning your phone off instead of using DND is a bad idea, even if you pay to subscribe to VVM.
However, I didn’t want to assume that as there are a handful of cases where people might actually need to turn their phones off because it can interfere with equipment, such as people who work on airplanes, some areas of hospitals etc. But outside of those niche cases, IMHO turning the phone off fully is not the best choice and amounts to user error.
Yes, it’s annoying that Public does not support VVM or even have an “Easy Roam” like option. The presence of Live voicemail and cheap international eSIM/dual SIM plans helps alleviate this a lot but for not very savvy users sometimes these features can be cumbersome compared to other alternatives. But I would also argue that for users who aren’t savvy, Freedom is a bad choice as their frequent lack of network coverage/access would be very difficult for a non-savvy user to navigate.
I would love the code if you’re not going to use it!
I would love a code!
Did anyone get a code they are not going to use and want to donate to a good cause? 🙂 Thank you in advance!